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Financial And Cost Information | |
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Engineering Economic Decisions | |
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The Rational Decision-Making Process | |
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Economic Decisions | |
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Predicting the Future | |
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Role of Engineers in Business | |
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Large-Scale Engineering Projects | |
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Types of Strategic Engineering Economic Decisions | |
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Understanding Financial Statements | |
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Accounting: The Basis of Decision Making | |
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Net Worth: How Well Am I Doing? Financial Status for Businesses | |
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Using Ratios to Make Business Decisions | |
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Cost Concepts and Behaviors | |
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General Cost Terms | |
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Classifying Costs for Financial Statements | |
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Cost Classification for Predicting Cost Behavior | |
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Cost Concepts Relevant to Decision Making | |
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Thinking on the Margin: Fundamental Economic | |
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Money And Investing | |
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Time Is Money | |
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Interest: The Cost of Money | |
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Economic Equivalence | |
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Development of Interest Formulas | |
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Unconventional Equivalence Calculations | |
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Understanding Money and Its Management | |
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Nominal and Effective Interest Rates | |
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Equivalence Calculations when Payment Periods and Compounding Periods Coincide | |
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Equivalence Calculations when Payment Periods and Compounding Periods Differ | |
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Equivalence Calculations with Continuous Payments | |
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Changing Interest Rates | |
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Debt Management | |
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Amortized Loans | |
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Principles of Investing | |
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Investing in Financial Assets | |
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Investment Strategies | |
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Investing in Stocks | |
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Investing in Bonds | |
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Evaluating Business And Engineering Assets | |
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Present Worth Analysis | |
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Describing Project Cash Flows | |
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Initial Project Screening Method | |
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Present Worth Analysis | |
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Variations of Present Worth Analysis | |
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Comparing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives | |
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Annual Equivalent Worth Analysis | |
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Annual Equivalent Criterion | |
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Applying Annual Worth Analysis | |
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Mutually Exclusive Projects | |
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Design Economics | |
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Rate of Return Analysis | |
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Rate of Return | |
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Methods for Finding Rate of Return | |
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Internal Rate of Return Criterion | |
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Mutually Exclusive Alternatives | |
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Development Of Project Cash Flows | |
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Depreciation | |
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Asset Depreciation | |
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Factors Inherent to Asset Depreciation | |
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Book Depreciation Methods | |
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Tax Depreciation Methods | |
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Depletion | |
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Repairs or Improvements to Depreciable Assets | |
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Corporate Income Taxes | |
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After-Tax Cash Flow | |
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Corporate Taxes | |
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Tax Treatment of Gains or Losses on Depreciable Assets | |
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Income Tax Rate to be Used in Economic Analysis | |
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Developing Project Cash Flows | |
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Estimating Cost/Benefit for Engineering Projects | |
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Incremental Cash Flows | |
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Developing Cash Flow Statements | |
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Generalized Cash Flow Approach | |
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Inflation and Its Impact on Project Cash Flows | |
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Meaning and Measure of Inflation | |
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Equivalence Calculations under Inflation | |
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Effects of Inflation on Project Cash Flows | |
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Rate of Return Analysis under Inflation | |
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Special Topics In Engineering Economics | |
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Project Risk and Uncertainty | |
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Origins of Project Risk | |
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Methods of Describing Project Risk | |
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Probability Concepts for Investment Decisions | |
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Probability Distribution of NPW | |
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Decision Trees and Sequential Investment Decisions | |
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Replacement Decisions | |
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Replacement Analysis Fundamentals | |
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Economic Service Life | |
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Replacement Analysis When Required Service Is Long | |
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Replacement Analysis with Tax Considerations | |
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Capital Budgeting Decisions | |
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Methods of Financing | |
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Cost of Capital | |
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Choice of Minimum Attractive Rate of Return | |
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Capital Budgeting | |
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Economic Analysis in the Public Sector | |
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Framework of Benefit-Cost Analysis | |
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Valuation of Benefits and Costs | |
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Benefit-Cost Ratios | |
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Analysis of Public Projects Based on Cost-Effectiveness | |
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Computing IRR for Nonsimple Investments | |
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Predicting Multiple i*s | |
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Net Investment Test | |
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External Interest Rate for Mixed Investments | |
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Calculation of Return on Invested Capital for Mixed Investments | |
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Trial-and-Error Method for Computing IRR | |
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Simulation | |
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Computer Simulation | |
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Model Building | |
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Monte Carlo Sampling | |
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Simulation Output Analysis | |
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Dependent Random Variables | |
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Electronic Spreadsheets: Summary of Built-In Financial Functions | |
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Nominal Versus Effective Interest Rates | |
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Single-Sum Compounding Functions | |
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Annuity Functions | |
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Loan Analysis Functions | |
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Bond Functions | |
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Project Evaluation Tools | |
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Depreciation Functions | |
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Interest Factors for Discrete Compounding | |
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Answers to Self-Test Questions | |
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Index | |